Blair collects $1million prize for services to world peace

War Hero

Tony Blair this week won a $1 million award for his services to the cause of furthering world peace. Confused? I am.

The former prime minister carried off the Dan David Prize for "his exceptional leadership and steadfast determination in helping to engineer agreements and forge lasting solutions to areas in conflict". Iraq, anybody? Or the Lebanon?

He'd better split it with all of us then or I'm not impressed. I propose a massively generous 5% for him based on kinda sorting out NI eventually, and the divide the rest into equal shares with double shares for the families of the fallen, and quadruple for those severely wounded. Seconded?

LE

MIA

Oh, come on. From the very conception of 'New Labour' over a glass or two of Chardonnay, the scheme and the people were a fraud. They have been ever since; Britain is a sick shadow of what it was and they've enriched themselves. That was the whole point.

LE

If they should once obtain a connivance, they will press for a toleration, from thence to an equality, from an equality to a superiority, from a superiority to an extirpation of all contrary religions. John Pym 1584-1643.

LE

So Phony Tony, who as pry minister of the UK propelled the UK Armed Forces into more wars than any pry minister before him, is awarded a prize for world peace? I must have missed something along the way.